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1831

99 BOTFIELD (Beriah) PREFATIONES et Epistola editionibus principibus AUCTORUM VETERUM præpositæ, elegantly printed on fine paper, thick 4to. half bound morocco, uncut, top edges gilt (very few copies printed), £1. 16s (pub. £5. 58) Cantab. 1861

This elegant volume, by the late earnest bibliographer, B. Botfield, Esq., M.P., contains the Prefaces to the First Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, and of the earliest versions of the Sacred Scriptures. No complete Collection of these Prefaces has hitherto been published.

100 BOTTA (Carlo) STORIA D'ITALIA dal 1789 al 1814, 4 vols. 8vo. half calf neat, 7s 6d Firenze, 1824